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Journal Article Databases
- Academic OneFileMulti-disciplinary, full-text articles from journals and reference books.
Search for journal articles on slavery and the Civil War in the following databases.
Try these search terms:
- African Americans AND slave*
- Civil War AND African Americans
- Aboliti* AND Civil War
- African Americans History
- Names of historical figures:
- Douglass, Frederick
- Tubman, Harriet
- Lincoln, Abraham
- Academic Search PremierMulti-disciplinary, full-text journal articles.
- Humanities International CompleteFull-text, scholarly journal articles.
- JSTORFull-text, scholarly journal articles.
- Project MuseFull-text, scholarly journal articles.
- Proquest CentralMulti-disciplinary full-text articles.
Books On Slavery
Atlas of Slavery by Call Number: HT861 .W33 2006 Lesley Sherrill stacks - 2nd floorPearson Longman, 2006.
Beyond Slavery: Overcoming its Religious and Sexual Legacies by Call Number: E443 .B45 2010 Sherrill Library 2nd fl.Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Calculating the Value of the Union: Slavery, Property Rights, and the Economic Origins of the Civil War by Call Number: E441 .H895 2003 Lesley Sherrill stacks - 2nd floorUniversity of North Carolina Press, 2003.
Cultural Politics of Sugar: Caribbean Slavery & Narratives of Colonialism by Call Number: E-BOOK from ebrary database
Books On The Civil War
Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten: How Hollywood & Popular Art Shape What we Know about the Civil War by University of North Carolina Press, 2008 - E-BOOK.
NEW - The Black Experience in the Civil War South by Call Number: E185.18 .A84 2010 Lesley Sherrill stacks - 2nd floorPraeger, 2010.
History Databases
- Gale U.S. History in ContextCheck out the multimedia resources in the "African American Perspectives" section. A library database.
- HistoryMakersThe HistoryMakers is "committed to preserving and making widely accessible the untold personal stories of both well-known and unsung African Americans." The Digital Archive is the world's largest African American oral history archive, providing over 2,000 hours of video footage.
Books For Children
Black, blue & gray : African Americans in the Civil War by
Call Number: Juv E540.N3 H37 1998
Chains by Call Number: Juv Fiction PZ7.A54385 Ch 2008 - Lesley/Sherrill Library TRCNew York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2008.